According to the theme, between now and 29 June, organize a panel with design professionals in your community and explore the ways designers can contribute to making the world better.

Or a Pecha Kucha. Or a seminar. You get the idea! Create a dialogue regarding the theme and industrial design. Discuss the concepts and suggest new ideas.

Host an event bringing together members of the design industry, design community, design students, and professors to share knowledge and to talk about the goal.

Open your doors to allow prospective students to check out the industrial design department of your university or college or your design studio. Allow them to ask questions of the professors or your employees, and allow them to take a look at some of the projects you’re working on.

Curate an exhibit by students in your college/university, or by designers from your design studio. Invite the design community and/or general public to take a look. Highlight projects that exemplify. Even better, curate an exhibit online that can be shared.

The WDO has an international code of ethics for industrial designers available in English, Spanish, and Italian on our website. Help us translate the code of ethics into your country’s official language(s) and share it with us.

In 2015, we asked the design community for their input to re-work the definition of industrial design. The new definition was officially released by the Professional Practice Committee in English on our website.  Help us translate the definition into your country’s official language(s) and share it with the WDO.

Join the movement of design cities officially proclaiming 29 June as World Industrial Design Day! We’ve created a template to help you draft a proclamation, download here.

Contact a local manufacturer or factory and take your students or designers on a tour to understand the final production stages of industrial design.

Host a webinar or online chat to engage with potential students at your university or potential employees at your design company to talk about how your university or company is involved to carry out and develop the theme that concern us this year.

Join a global movement to celebrate WIDD by sending us a short video message and/or your thoughts on the role that industrial designers play in regard to the theme. We’ll edit the best videos from around the world and share these capsules of inspiration on 29 June. Like and share these short videos on all of your social networks. Please click here to know how to submit your video

Public appreciation for design directly relates to public awareness. Identify opportunities to showcase the many different design-driven initiatives that exist in your city and how they are vital to a city’s function.

Work towards developing a design policy for your university department, company, or city. Exchange best practices with these different stakeholders and identify opportunities for collaboration.

Hold a town hall style meeting to discuss what new or improved design-led initiatives regarding the theme that could be considered as a benefit to your university, company or city. Allow local designers and design agencies who are champions of design to speak to the community. If possible, present case studies from other universities, companies or cities.

Encourage all museums in your city to open their doors free of charge on 29 June in celebration of World Industrial Design Day.

Work with local tourism boards to examine how these design aspects of your city can help boost your image abroad.

Develop a design map of your city, highlighting design museums and galleries, design studios that are open to the public, open spaces or even retail shops that have industrial design. Encourage tourists and citizens to participate in a design walk by following all the stops on the map.

Highlight the design contributions of your design team and young designers via your corporate website and social media pages.

Even the youngest minds can suggest ideas. On this day, encourage your employees to bring their children, nieces, nephews or grandchildren to the office and interact with design professionals.

What better day to launch a new product or service than on World Industrial Design Day?

Collaborate on an event with the national patent office in your area to commemorate industrial design day or host a lecture on patents.